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NATIVE AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2003 Catherine Wayland image of V. Blackhawk Aamott   Organized by the Film and Video Center of the SmithsonianNational Museum of the American Indian (FVC), the festival was presented in NewYork City at the NMAI George Gustav Heye Center, the Donnell Media Center ofthe New York Public Library, and […]

LES FILM FESTIVAL Rick Hamner I doubtmany of the people who heard Baz Luhrman’s high-dollar, uptown production of LaBoheme wandered through much of Phil Hartmann’s low-rent bohemian circus, HowlFestival, but there was much to ponder about art then and now, and what loveand squalor it all comes from. No small part of the week-long extravaganza […]

LOOP ’00 ART BARCELONA Rita Michel  photo by Rita Mchel   LOOP’00 ART BARCELONA,"Fira de Videoart", the new International Video Exposition, tookplace from November 27-30 in Barcelona, Spain at the beautiful Barcelo HotelSants. Based upon my conversations with the artists, many of them were planningto sell work or make gallery contacts. Some of the gallery […]

INSTANT GRATIFICATION Lily Hatchett As we allknow, filmmaking is a painstaking collaborative process that takes time andeffort, spanning an extended period of time from idea to completion. That wayof working leaves the impatient, the need-to-see-it-now types out, or does it?Available technology allows us to make a movie in a day. Quick video festivalsare here and […]

Constructing A Visual Field Rick Hamner   Reading Ossie Clark, 2003, sequence from DVD with sound for plasma or projection   JeremyBlake’s "time-based painting" has been around for a while now, at theWhitney’s Bitstreams and at 010101 in San Francisco, but he’s gained much ofhis renown working with real-time artists Beck and P. T. Anderson. […]

Delicious for the brain: Godfrey Reggio Lily Hatchett Images of him and of NAQOYQATSI   So muchhas been written and said about artist/filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, especiallysince the release of NAQOYQATSI, his long-awaited grand finale to the QATSItrilogy. The outcry of joys and disappointments, amazing how much passion agentle ex-monk can arouse.   I firstmet Godfrey […]

Silent Words Tarvis Watson SometimesI wonder what was going through Godfrey Reggio’s mind during those fourteenyears he was silent. I read somewhere that the average male speaks two thousandwords a day. Two thousand words times three hundred and sixty five days timesfourteen years equals ten million, two-hundred and twenty thousand words, allunspoken by Mr. Reggio. […]

Cuba: Island Of Music Rita Michel       Documentaryfilm producer and director Gary Keys started his media career in theadvertising industry directing television commercials. This day-job gave himthe skills that, subsequently, were the tools for his creations.style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Always a major jazz buff, Gary hassurrounded himself with musicians, or perhaps one can say that […]

NATURE IN ACE����David Hatchett DA-O-BA IV, 1969   style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>The nature of electricity ismovement and, generally speaking, when electricity is used as an element in art,it moves. Film, video, and amplified music are all "moving" arts thatare perceived over a length of time. This element of time creates a contextthat is easily assimilated into our day-to-day […]

MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS: Multiple Video Event David Hatchett style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Walking through Artists Space, Ihear a sound track coming from a back room. It sounds like billiard ballscolliding or airplanes sweeping in on their targets. The quick strike, theclattering of chairs exploding, an air raid on Baghdad? A sign outside the roomsays it is a film by […]